Easter Climbing

mushy

This easter break we headed inland about 3 hours for some rock climbing on a beautiful granite outcrop.

First climb of the day nearing the top


Setting up an abseil line


Looking out over the salt lake


Cleaning a few holds before climbing


I hung out on a rope for the next few shoots






Topping out, almost in silhouette


Nice colours in the salt lake as the sun sets


Chilling by the fire after a good days climbing shot at ISO 3200, hand held


and to capp it off a lightning storm at about 4am, shame i forgot to take the camera off ISO 3200




Cheers for looking, comment or critique away.:1drink

gus

Fantastic mushy...they realy pass on a mood. That silhouette could be darkened to show a black person with a coloured background without too much trouble. A 4am storm...how lucky can you get !

mushy

Humungus wrote:

Fantastic mushy...they realy pass on a mood. That silhouette could be darkened to show a black person with a coloured background without too much trouble. A 4am storm...how lucky can you get !

Cheers for the comments Humungus I will definitely be doing some work on the silhouette shot and as for the storm, there were 4 storms in view from where we were sitting 2 were distant and two fairly upfront. It was well worth getting up for just to watch.

saurora

All nice shots, but those storm shots are brilliant!! Love the landscape all lit up!!!

ryan_wedemeyer

when shooting climbing, as a loose rule, i try to show all four points on the rock. that seems to help tell the story best.

with climbing it's all about finding the best angle to portray the difficulty and beauty of the line.

how fortunate to be present with a camera during such an awesome storm.

cool shots.

coldclimb

Sweet shots, and nice lightning too! Good stuff!

ian408

The storm pictures are pretty sweet!

Generally, I like silhouettes but for climbing shots, the silhouette works best
for me when the climber is topping out (or almost). I'd like to see more color
too. Your climbers are blending into the rock a bit too much.

Ian

mushy

ian408 wrote:

The storm pictures are pretty sweet!

Generally, I like silhouettes but for climbing shots, the silhouette works best
for me when the climber is topping out (or almost). I'd like to see more color
too. Your climbers are blending into the rock a bit too much.

Ian

Cheers for the comments Ian (and everybody else ) as for the bright clothing its just something none of these people wear dammit, so yes they do blend in quite well.
As for the silhouette shots I have played around with a few and am undecided on the best course of action as to how much of the foreground should be silhouetted or just the climber etc etc. I may just throw something towards the whipping post for further ideas me thinks...